Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Duinnshléibhe ‘son of Donn Sléibhe’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + sléibhe ‘of the mountain’.
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